1881 census place

Middlesbrough surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the district or town. Frequency and index show whether the surname was unusually common locally.

Place summary

1,908 surnames are listed for Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, covering 19,868 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Robinson, with 508 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Middlesbrough

Small places can have high concentration scores even when the raw count is modest. The index column helps separate genuinely local surnames from names that simply appear in large numbers everywhere.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1	Robinson	508	1.35%	4.23x
2	Brown	342	0.910%	1.38x
3	Wilson	318	0.840%	1.84x
4	Thompson	269	0.710%	2.38x
5	Johnson	212	0.560%	1.67x
6	Jackson	209	0.550%	1.98x
7	Walker	202	0.540%	1.60x
8	Wood	186	0.490%	1.55x
9	Watson	182	0.480%	2.08x
10	Wright	181	0.480%	1.50x
11	Simpson	157	0.420%	2.38x
12	Clark	153	0.410%	1.35x
13	Richardson	150	0.400%	2.34x
14	Pearson	145	0.380%	3.31x
15	Bell	140	0.370%	1.98x
16	Robson	135	0.360%	5.44x
17	Ward	123	0.330%	1.49x
18	Atkinson	119	0.320%	3.24x
19	Martin	119	0.320%	1.28x
20	Hudson	117	0.310%	3.79x
21	Moore	117	0.310%	1.55x
22	Wilkinson	114	0.300%	1.98x
23	Walton	110	0.290%	4.15x
24	Dawson	104	0.280%	2.50x
25	Barker	101	0.270%	2.05x
26	Foster	99	0.260%	1.96x
27	Carter	98	0.260%	1.55x
28	Graham	98	0.260%	2.26x
29	Cook	94	0.250%	1.26x
30	Gibson	92	0.240%	2.01x
31	Hunter	91	0.240%	2.35x
32	Davison	90	0.240%	6.68x
33	Pattison	90	0.240%	15.00x
34	Burns	86	0.230%	3.40x
35	Pickering	84	0.220%	6.18x
36	Hutchinson	80	0.210%	3.74x
37	Hodgson	77	0.200%	2.95x
38	Dobson	75	0.200%	4.51x
39	Nicholson	75	0.200%	2.80x
40	Chapman	72	0.190%	1.34x
41	Dixon	70	0.190%	1.69x
42	Holmes	70	0.190%	1.52x
43	Coates	69	0.180%	4.91x
44	Henderson	63	0.170%	1.54x
45	Sanderson	61	0.160%	3.92x
46	Coverdale	60	0.160%	58.13x
47	Hammond	59	0.160%	2.75x
48	Forster	57	0.150%	4.61x
49	Hart	54	0.140%	1.68x
50	Watts	53	0.140%	1.68x
51	Allan	52	0.140%	2.20x
52	Charlton	52	0.140%	4.81x
53	Hewitson	52	0.140%	23.34x
54	Reed	50	0.130%	1.82x
55	Spence	49	0.130%	3.93x
56	Calvert	48	0.130%	6.24x
57	Dickinson	45	0.120%	2.80x
58	Howe	45	0.120%	3.04x
59	Todd	44	0.120%	2.29x
60	Dodds	43	0.110%	5.42x
61	Lawson	43	0.110%	1.93x
62	Nelson	43	0.110%	2.35x
63	Patterson	43	0.110%	3.27x
64	Jefferson	42	0.110%	10.26x
65	Laverick	42	0.110%	30.53x
66	Douglas	41	0.110%	2.25x
67	Potter	40	0.110%	1.64x
68	Ryan	40	0.110%	3.42x
69	Hobson	39	0.100%	3.99x
70	Wade	39	0.100%	2.58x
71	Milburn	38	0.100%	11.29x
72	Pallister	38	0.100%	39.88x
73	Patton	38	0.100%	28.35x
74	Hanson	37	0.100%	3.04x
75	Ingledew	37	0.100%	70.66x
76	Metcalf	37	0.100%	4.85x
77	Bartley	36	0.100%	19.86x
78	Dent	36	0.100%	5.01x
79	Close	35	0.090%	10.64x
80	Craggs	35	0.090%	18.04x
81	Longstaff	35	0.090%	13.16x
82	Myers	35	0.090%	3.56x
83	Bone	34	0.090%	4.87x
84	Carling	34	0.090%	35.96x
85	Flynn	34	0.090%	4.71x
86	Crosby	33	0.090%	7.40x
87	Preston	33	0.090%	1.75x
88	Sowerby	33	0.090%	16.23x
89	Welsh	33	0.090%	2.21x
90	Whitfield	33	0.090%	4.38x
91	Appleton	32	0.080%	5.42x
92	Bowes	32	0.080%	9.25x
93	Garbutt	32	0.080%	11.75x
94	Lister	32	0.080%	2.98x
95	Sherris	32	0.080%	292.24x
96	Temple	32	0.080%	6.47x
97	Wake	32	0.080%	10.54x
98	Wray	32	0.080%	6.32x
99	Ripley	31	0.080%	12.45x
100	Turnbull	31	0.080%	1.95x